77 - Mastering Menopause & Hormones with Esther Blum

A lot of women over the age of 35, 45, 50 and beyond, are in hormonal hell. They're struggling with peri menopause and menopause and don't know where to start or who to turn to. Perhaps they go to their local GP who fobs them off with, "Good luck, it is what it is", or worse yet, get handed the birth control pill and sent off on their merry way. Except…The menopause is not a birth control deficiency!!

So off they go and continue struggling with their intolerable symptoms. They feel absolutely crap, develop a pot belly out of nowhere, find themselves miserable and crying for no reason, shout at their husband with no logical cause only to head to bed and toss and turn with hot flash after hot flash waking up in a pool of soaked sheets wondering if they can get away with falling back asleep or if they have to get up and change the damn sheets for the 4th time this week!!

Truth be told, the menopause is an utter minefield and is to date, so poorly managed. But help is on its way! Episode 77 of the Chase Life podcast welcomes special guest Esther Blum, Integrative Dietitian, 4 time best seller and author of "See Ya Later Ovulator!", who assures us that yes, you can master your menopause with nutrition, exercise, gut health, and a large dose of self-advocacy.

In this episode Rachel and Esther discuss:

- Esther's journey and how she went from writing Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous to writing a book on the menopause.
- How you can be perimenopausal and be on a full regiment of hormone replacement and have very little to no side effects.
- The importance of self advocacy, and why you have to take your health into your own hands.
- Why "test don't guess" is Esther's mantra...and where most doctors go wrong.
- Esther's 3 types of testing.
- The role of nutrition, resistance training and lifestyle factors in managing our hormones.
- How chronic stress wreaks havoc on our hormones and strategies to combat this.
- How alcohol and caffeine affects us and the shocking effect of alcohol on estrogen.
- Supplements and the 6 most important kinds to take if you are perimenopausal.
- Why so many women go through major thyroid issues in the menopause.
- The role of state management in managing symptoms.
- HRT and dispelling the myth that HRT "causes breast cancer and the risk outweighs the benefit".
- The difference between pharmaceutical hormones, bioidentical hormones, and creams, patches and pellets.
- Why you cannot out-hormone your lifestyle choices, why it's really important to optimize systems first, and why not everyone that comes to Esther can start on hormones.

Episode 77 of the Chase Life podcast answers ALL possible questions you have on peri menopause and menopause…and more!

Highly informative, entertaining, and insanely liberating as you realise not only are you not losing your mind and your body… but help and solutions are out there!

If you have any questions for the podcast please send them to: Rachel@ChaseLifeConsulting.com

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